Three letters to the bishop of Bangor

When Dr. Snape Andrew Snape (1675–1742), a high-church clergyman and critic of Bishop Hoadly represents your Lordship as no friend to the good order and necessary institutions of the Church, you complain about the deceptive tactics original: "ill Arts" of an opponent who portrays you in a false light and deliberately twists your words to increase his own imaginary triumphs. But, my Lord, in this regard, Dr. Snape only agrees with those who are considered your best friends—friends who would only remain so because they conclude that you have declared yourself against the authority of the Church.

Does your Lordship suppose that the T----ds, the H--------ks, and the B----ts These redacted names likely refer to radical or deist thinkers of the era, such as John Toland, whose views were considered subversive to traditional religion would spend so much time and effort to justify, praise, and expand upon your Lordship’s ideas if they did not think you were committed to their cause? There is not a libertine or "freethinker" original: "Loose-Thinker" in England who does not imagine that you intend to dissolve the Church as an organized society, and they are ready to offer praise to your Lordship for such a supposedly worthy design.

I do not intend to criticize your Lordship for their admiration or to implicate you in the guilt of their schemes. Rather, I want to show that an opponent does not need any malice to believe you are no friend to the constitution of the Church as a formal society, since your greatest admirers essentially proclaim this to the world in print every day through their own interpretations of your work.

After a word or two concerning a passage in your Lordship’s Preservative Referring to Hoadly's 1716 work, A Preservative against the Principles and Practices of the Non-jurors, I shall proceed to consider your answer to Dr. Snape. On page 98, you have these words: “But when you are certain of your integrity before God, — this will lead you (as it should lead all of us) not to be afraid of the ter—” The text cuts off here at the end of the page; the catchword "rors" indicates the next word is "terrors."